Gaza conflict led to record rise in UK anti-Israeli sentiments, charity says

A charity that monitors anti-Israeli sentiments and provides security for British Jewish groups has said the Gaza conflict that broke out in May resulted in its highest recording of anti-Israel hate incidents.
 

The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 1,308 such incidents nationwide between January and June 2021, a 49% increase on the same period in 2020 and the highest recorded in the first half of a year.

CST said the increase had been fuelled by anti-Israeli sentiments to the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza, similar to that recorded in 2014 as a result of flare-up in conflict.
 

CST recorded a monthly record of 639 anti-Israeli sentiments in May, accounting for 49% of all those recorded in the first half of 2021, and on its own a record six-month tally for every year before 2017.